- Attorney
- Masakazu Okamura (Patent and Trademark Attorney Reg. No. 13449, Registered
in 2004)
- This is MASAKAZU OKAMURA, Representative Patent Attorney of OKAMURA Trademark
& Patent Office. I am specialized in trademark practice. I conduct
effective trademark search thus I scarcely receive the Notice of Rejection.
Even if I receive the Notice of rejection, I am good at writing up effective
arguments and obtain good results.
I always work from your point of view.
- Background
Hometown:
Suginami, Tokyo, JAPAN
Biography:
Graduated from Toyotama High School (Alumnus of the basketball team)
Graduated from Keio University, JAPAN
Worked for Miyoshi & Miyoshi (Design and Trademark Dep.)
Membership:
Japan Patent Attorneys Association
(A member of Unfair Competition Prevention Law Committee)
Japan Patent Attorneys Association Kanto Division
(A member of Tokyo Area Committee)
Japan Trademark Association
(A member of Brand Management Committee)
Tokyo Chamber of Commerce
Contribution:
Nikkei Business Publications, Inc., Intellectual Property Awareness
“The function the trademark takes in activating a local brand”
“The merits and problems in utilizing regional collective trademarks”
“JPO considers the introduction of new type of trademarks at the revision
of trademark law in 2010”
“Coca Cola(Japan) Co., Ltd. won a case by utilizing a result of fair brand
recollection survey”
Pomology Magazine:
“Trademark registration of local brand”
Lecture:
General Information for Trademark Introduction (September, 2005)
Trademark Basic for CEOs (June, 2007)
Limitation of the effect of trademark rights of Trademark Act Art.26, Sec.1,
#1 (November, 2009)
Intellectual Property Training Seminar for Sales Department (December,
2011)
Intellectual Property Training Seminar for Sales Department (February,
2012)
Precedent on Unfair Competition Prevention Law Art. 2, Sec.1, #13 concerning
Quality Misrepresentation of Car Wax Claiming “No Wax for 5 years”(March, 2013)
New Type of Trademarks such as Movement, Hologram, Color, Sound, and
Location, especially Trademark that is composed by colors alone (July,
2015)
“Don’t Use Trademark in such way” (December, 2015)
Trademark Basic for Strategy Planners, Designers and Art Directors (May,
2018)
”Battle over the trademarks containing Two, Three, or Four lines in EU/JP
(July, 2019)
Trademark Basic and Branding for the CEOs of small and mid-sized business
and the persons in charge of the Intellectual Property (October, 2019)
Other Career:
Intellectual Property Adviser of Entrepreneur General Support Center of
Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation,
JAPAN (2006-2014)
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